A-type star · white star

HR 5629

HR 5629 is a white star in the constellation Ursa Minor 493 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,487 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 493 years ago.

493 lybrightness mag 6.22A2Vs

Also catalogued as HD 133994 · HIP 73706

9,487 K

temperature

6.22

apparent magnitude

64.62× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2Vs

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

493 years

at light speed from Earth

1.64×

as hot as the Sun

64.62×

the Sun's light output

0.32

absolute magnitude

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HR 5629A-type

Sky regionUrsa Minorthis direction

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Bright stars in Ursa Minor

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Minor

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.